I am trying to get the 'tv guide' addon to display live TV channel guide.
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I just installed Kodi 17.3 a few days ago on my Windows 7 laptop and I am trying to configure it but it is quite a lot of learning.
There seems to be countless sets of kodi addons that can work separately or together. I wonder if there is a list of 'typical/standard/popular setups' somewhere since I am guessing most people would want similar stuff (browse/search/watch something), aside from the skin/presentation format of course.
I bought a hdhomerun to get live TV using an antenna.
I am able to see some TV channels with it and can see the channel guide that comes from the hdhomerun addon but that is not what I am trying to use.
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So I did the following (How do I get an XMLTV File?):
1- If you want to build a xmltv file for free with very basic info try MC2XML.
2- Run "mc2xml", it has a simple graphical user interface
Input postal code and country code and press OK
Select lineup number from the returned list and an xmltv.xml file will be produced
(this worked? the generated xml seems to contain a lot of info).
3- Go into 'tv guide' addon settings, choose xmlfile... select folder and look for your xml file.
(this worked? when I go to the 'tv guide' addon, it loads the file without showing errors on the screen).
a) When I go to the 'tv guide' addon, it displays all the tv channels with the current time at the top but they all display 'no program available'.
b) Another question I have. Is it possible to record from the 'tv guide' addon.